Archive for August, 2007

People

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

People are the reason that everything in life, simple or otherwise, is so fucking complicated. People go around killing each other, raping each other, stealing posessions and generally being intrusive, annoying, offensive, stupid, careless, violent cunts. If you think about the amount of people there are in the world, and how easy it is to do a simple task, like not steal someone’s car, it makes you realise that the world is populated by a huge number of defective tosspots who should be exported to a place where we can hammer some common decency into them. Oh, if only I had the power.

Because of said people I am currently rather annoyed. I am annoyed because my plans for the weekend were completely ruined, a) because of common human error, and b) because of banks, banking, bankers and general bank tomfoolery. All of the security measures that plague us spending the money that is ours simply because of said people; the human-based parasites infecting our world mean that such stupid things have to be done to be able to get money from point A to point B. In fact, when it comes to spending money, there it’s more an a to z thing.

My Mum recieved a cheque recently which was from a company she saved some money with when I was younger. The money was to go to my account, but the cheque was in her name, so it had to be deposited in her bank account first. The cheque took a while to clear because cheques only clear on working days, and there was a bank holiday in the way. My Mum doesn’t use online banking with that account, and couldn’t transfer the money over the phone, so she had to take the money out of her bank and I would have to deposit it into mine. However, she is working out of town this week, and we have some builders in our house this week as well, who I wouldn’t trust with a teaspoon in the shed, let alone £1000 in the house. So, we suggested her taking it out of her account and putting it in mine. Yes, that would work, if my bank happened to have a branch in either of the two cities she travelled through in her out-of-town work. Not only that, but you are only allowed to withdraw £250 from a cashpoint in a day. For a larger amount of money (oo get you with the cash) you have to take it out of the bank, which has a rather inconvinient closing time. As of such, the money can’t be transfered to my account by any means until Saturday, by which point it will be too late for me to order the things that I want to order for the weekend, which completely ruins my plans. All of this is because of the stupid security measures and generally how annoying the society we live in is.

Things like transfering money from one bank account to another should be so fucking simple, but they’re not, and in situations like this when I have been affected by it, it really, really gets to me.

New Bike

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I went to Halfords last thursday and ordered a new bike. I wanted to buy it straight away but they needed to get it from the warehouse and build it in the shop. They said it would be ready by Monday. On Monday I went into the shop to collect my bike. The person who supposedly built it wasn’t in, and the bike couldn’t be found. The employee who was dealing with me said that he had built it and it had to be around “somewhere”. Eventually, whilst I was upstairs and the salesman was downstairs, he came up saying he’d found the bike. I heard the Halfords employees muttering that it hadn’t been built, but I chose to ignore the poor customer service and just go along with it. Apparently Steve (the person who had “built” my bike) had built the bike and put it in the window on display (conviniently with the pricetag and display information attached to it) which is funny because I could have sworn I saw that bike on thursday when I was looking in the window, trying to decide which bike I would like to buy.

I didn’t say anything to them, but now I really, really regret it. I can’t believe they told such a blatant lie, and I can’t believe I was too stupid to go along with it without saying anything.

Anyway, I now have a new bike. It was a good deal for £100, and going downhill really fast is great fun. Unfortunately the world wasn’t engineered so that hills go down on both sides, because that would be rather against the laws of physics, but nevermind.

The Quote Site

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Inspired by http://www.bash.org/, I have made my very own quotes website (hence the quotes page disappearing).

The system is functional, but still requires a bit of development for comments and moderation. Anyway, check it out:

http://www.thequotesite.net/

A question of English

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

When we enclose things in punctuation such as brackets or inverted commas, any punctuation we use inside applies to the content between the punctuation, not the content outside of it.

Therefore, if I was writing a sentence, and I wrote a sentence in brackets which ended with a full stop, would I close the brackets and then use another full stop to look like this

blah blah blah blah (blah blah blah.).

Or would I not use a full stop inside the brackets:

blah blah blah blah (blah blah blah).

Although I think there are situations when that can’t be avoided.

Or would I close the brackets after the full stop, which is incorrect as far as I’m aware.

blah blah blah blah (blah blah blah.)

My Plan

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

For some bizarre reason, lots of things came flooding to me today, and I have no reason why. However, in my mind they all make sense, and right now that means one hell of a lot to me. So, I’ve now got a plan of what I’m going to try and do for the next few years of my life, and I’m determined to stick by it.

I have decided that I am going to work for the next year, there abouts, and leave COSMIC with the qualifications I get from my NVQ. I will save as much money as possible, and buy any essentials that I’ll need. In September I’m going to go back to college. I’m not sure what I’m going to study exactly, but I’ll definitely take English Language again, and retake my Maths GCSE so that I don’t look like an idiot.

From there I plan to go to university. I want to meet lots of people, have lots of fun, expand my knowledge and generally live life. I feel now that it is the right thing to do, and my mind is at peace.